plight of kerala essay
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Kerala is staring at its worst flooding in living memory. With incessant rainfall for two weeks and coming on the heels of surplus monsoons since June, all rivers went into spate forcing open the sluice gates of 34 dams. To put the flooding in context, surplus deviation from rainfall normal has been 42% since June 1, 255% between August 9 and 15, and on August 17, the departure from normal was a whopping 424%. The deluge has invited comparisons with the Great Kerala Floods of 1924. But the damage this time is magnified manifold by ruination of infrastructure built painstakingly over decades.
Roads and bridges have been washed away and thousands of houses, commercial establishments, government offices and farms submerged in floodwaters. Over 7 lakh people were shifted to 3,500 relief camps. Kerala government’s preliminary assessment of losses is pegged at Rs 19,000 crore. With the state government and local volunteers overwhelmed at many places and people cut off for days, the scale of the disaster, in hindsight, tells us that greater central and armed forces intervention was needed right at the start.
Roads and bridges have been washed away and thousands of houses, commercial establishments, government offices and farms submerged in floodwaters. Over 7 lakh people were shifted to 3,500 relief camps. Kerala government’s preliminary assessment of losses is pegged at Rs 19,000 crore. With the state government and local volunteers overwhelmed at many places and people cut off for days, the scale of the disaster, in hindsight, tells us that greater central and armed forces intervention was needed right at the start.
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